Improvement in manufacture of smoking-tobacco



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JO NATHA NYQF'ALL, 0 F E MIRA; NEW YORK. Lam Patent No. 72,356, dated December 17, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN MANUFACTURE OF SMOKING-TOBACCO.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: 7

Be it known that I, JONATHAN BALL, of Elmira, in the county of Chemung, and State of New York, have invented, made, and applied to use a certain new and. useful Improvement in the Manufacture of Smoking-' Tobacco; and I do hereby declare the following to be a correct description of the same.

The tobacco known in the market as Havana tobacco possesses a peculiarly agreeable aromatic odor when smoked, and hcnccis highly prized on this account. The tobacco raised in other places from the same seed does not possess that peculiarity, and the difference in the quality of the leaf is attributed to climate and soil. I have discovered the source of" the peculiar quality of the Havana tobacco, the cause of the absence of those qualities in tobacco grownelsewhere, and a method of imparting to the leaf the peculiar qualities possessed by the best of said Havana tobacco.

In Cuba there is little or no rain while the tobacco is finishing its growth, but there are heavy dews. The honey of the vegetation is not washed off the tobacco by'raius as in most other countries, but the dew serves to fix the same in the tobacco, imparting to it the peculiar flavor of the Havana tobacco.

I have discovered that the tobacco of other countries can be prepared so as to possess all the properties of the genuine Havana tobacco, so thatfthe peculiarly agreeable odor of the best quality of tobacco wi'll be obtained. To eficct this, I moist-cu the tobacco-leaves in a weak solution of honey and water, and thenallow them to dry suificiently for manufacture. The proportion of the mixture depends upon the quality of the tobacco and the extent desired of the said peculiar aroma.

The foregoing inode of preparing tobacco does not in any manner injure it, neither is anything employed that is detrimental to the person using the same, and by actual tests I find that'the difference between the genuineHavana tobacco and that prepared as aforesaid cannot be detected by the best judges.

What I claim, and desire to secure by LettersPatent, is-

The mode herein specified of preparing smoking-tobacco. I

In witness whereof, I have'hereunto set my signature, this twenty-eighth day of May, A. D. 1867.

. JONATHAN BALL. I Witnesses:

Chris. H. SMITH, GEO. D. \VALKER. 

